Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defendants were bureaucrats and diplomats, the technicians of terror and the bookkeepers of tyranny. In the glare of the klieg lights, they looked almost pitiful. When grey-haired Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker was led into the dock, a U.S. colonel's wife in the gallery whispered: "Why, look at that nice...
...Klieg lights threw a hot white glare over the green chamber in Canada's House of Commons last week. For the first time, newsreel cameramen were allowed into the crowded galleries to film the opening of a session of Parliament...
...lines. He had moved his Foreign Relations Committee into the marble-pillared Senate caucus room. The hearing, Tom Connally announced, was "on the question of the nomination of Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State." A murmur of correction ("Secretary!") rose from the press tables. Connally, beaming under the klieg lights, brushed off the advice: "He's still Under Secretary until he's confirmed." Then, after recalling that Acheson was still a citizen without public office, he added: "I don't mean technically...
...They entered a small building guarded by a man who looked like a storm trooper. The FBI man put Santa under a klieg light...
...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...